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TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH	A
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It was the fair knight Aagen	B
To an isle he went his way	C
And plighted troth to Else	D
Who was so fair a may	C
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He plighted troth to Else	D
All with the ruddy gold	E
But or ere that day s moon came again	B
Low he lay in the black black mould	E
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It was the maiden Else	D
She was fulfilled of woe	F
When she heard how the fair knight Aagen	B
In the black mould lay alow	G
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Uprose the fair knight Aagen	B
Coffin on back took he	H
And he s away to her bower	I
Sore hard as the work might be	H
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With that same chest on door he smote	E
For the lack of flesh and skin	B
O hearken maiden Else	D
And let thy true love in	B
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Then answered maiden Else	D
Never open I my door	J
But and if thou namest Jesu s name	K
As thou hadst might before	J
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O hearken maiden Else	D
And open thou thy door	J
For Jesu s name I well may name	K
As I had might before	J
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Then uprose maiden Else	D
O er her cheek the salt tears ran	B
Nor spared she into her very bower	I
To welcome that dead man	B
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O she s taken up her comb of gold	E
And combed adown her hair	L
And for every hair she combed adown	B
There fell a weary tear	L
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Hearken thou knight Aagen	B
Hearken true love and tell	G
If down adown in the black black earth	M
Thou farest ever well	G
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O whenso thou art joyous	N
And the heart is glad in thee	H
Then fares it with my coffin	B
That red roses are with me	H
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But whenso thou art sorrowful	G
And weary is thy mood	E
Then all within my coffin	B
Is it dreadful with dark blood	E
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Now is the red cock a crowing	O
To the earth adown must I	P
Down to the earth wend all dead folk	Q
And I wend in company	H
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Now is the black cock a crowing	O
To the earth must I adown	H
For the gates of Heaven are opening now	H
Thereto must I begone	H
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Uprose the fair knight Aagen	H
Coffin on back took he	H
And he s away to the churchyard now	H
Sore hard as the work might be	H
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But so wrought maiden Else	D
Because of her weary mood	E
That she followed after own true love	R
All through the mirk wild wood	E
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But when the wood was well passed through	S
And in the churchyard they were	I
Then was the fair knight Aagen	H
Waxen wan of his golden hair	L
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And when therefrom they wended	E
And were the church within	H
Then was the fair knight Aagen	H
Waxen wan of cheek and chin	H
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Hearken thou maiden Else	D
Hearken true love to me	H
Weep no more for thine own troth plight	E
However it shall be	H
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Look thou up to the heavens aloft	E
To the little stars and bright	E
And thou shalt see how sweetly	H
It fareth with the night	E
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She looked up to the heavens aloft	E
To the little stars bright above	R
The dead man sank into his grave	T
Ne er again she saw her love	R
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Home then went maiden Else	D
Mid sorrow manifold	E
And ere that night s moon came again	H
She lay alow in the mould	E

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